The harshest own I can think of for MBTI isn't even the racist mystery novel that Isabel Briggs-Myers wrote, it's that she had this fan correspondence with Jung that ended with him calling her a dangerous busybody filled with narcissistic hubris
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai and
Jung -- CARL Jung -- making this accusation of anyone else And yet he was completely correct (Myers was insistent on applying what she understood of Jung's theories to try to "help" the other neighborhood kids who played with her daughter without their parents' consent)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai and
See if you didn't know what it was about you could call this an arrogant male scholar dismissing the idea a mere sheltered American housewife could understand his ideas And I guess it was that But he was, you know, correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai and
He really tears into her in that last letter about how only someone with this childlike, grotesquely oversimplified view of the human condition -- with no sense of the darkness in the abyss at the center of the human heart -- would mess around with other people's minds so lightly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai and
now i want to do a short story about this kind of incurious and shitty but convinced of her own righteousness 50s housewife who gets ahold of the necromicon and starts screwing around with the ancient powers of earth
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
turning people into dogs and howling beasts and starry nightmares because it "better fits with their place in things" spatially rearranging the neighborhood so she doesn't have to see ms carver's red front door
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
and even as the world is ending and the black sun is rising she has absolutely no idea at all that she bears any responsibility, for anything
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Replying to @perdricof @Zendervai and
Lol this is a real CM Kornbluth story (It's also kind of the plot of Pratchett's Witches Abroad)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zendervai and
"we can get them for you wholesale" except about an american karen instead of a british insurance agent
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Replying to @perdricof @Zendervai and
Yeah I forget the name of the story but it's this rapidly expanding bubble of reality distortion/mind control centered on this one sheltered housewife who believes in a lot of stupid 50s crank theories
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But primarily just believes in universal love and kindness (hence anyone who's come under the field's influence being unable to harm another living thing, causing all the humans and animals within to slowly starve to death)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The protagonist is an editor from a sleazy publisher who recognizes certain weird phrases people in the bubble repeat as being from this sleazy self-help book he worked on called "Unlocking Your Inner Hidden Power"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
And realizes to his horror that one of its readers *actually had* a hidden inner power and succeeded in unlocking it And forces the book's sleazy author at gunpoint to come with him to the center of the Hex to try to resolve the situation
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